Thanks for Combining the SE Forums

tesco samoa · #1 May 17th, 2005, 09:25 AM

Very good move. And way up at the top.

Class act all the way.

Shrapnel Games looks after it members who wish to fill up a tera byte of data.

Gandalf Parker · #2 May 17th, 2005, 09:41 AM

I dont think it was a good move. If the SEIV race-for-posts is going to play straw on the camel then why make SEV part of it? Might show an opinion of SEV I guess. Thats too bad. I wonder why StarFury wasnt absorbed also?

ON TO THE TERABYTE! INSANITY UNITE!
Gandalf Parker

Anguille · #3 May 17th, 2005, 11:19 AM

This is getting too confusing...i prefered the way it was before too.

douglas · #4 May 17th, 2005, 11:27 AM

I liked them separate, too. At the very least, they should have moved the existing posts from the SEV forum to this one before scrapping it. If you're going to combine forums, don't lose posts in the process.

Phoenix-D · #5 May 17th, 2005, 12:37 PM

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douglas said:
I liked them separate, too. At the very least, they should have moved the existing posts from the SEV forum to this one before scrapping it. If you're going to combine forums, don't lose posts in the process.

We didn't. They're all mixed in with the SE4 posts.

tesco samoa · #6 May 17th, 2005, 11:39 AM

well as time goes on its just one forum to look after. and the seiv posts will slowly stop and the sev posts will take over. Also I believe with the removal of SE from shrapnel that this part of the shrapnel community will slow down. Look at how many posts were getting a week now. It has slowed down. And it will only get slower and slower.

Mindi · #7 May 17th, 2005, 01:03 PM

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tesco samoa said:
well as time goes on its just one forum to look after. and the seiv posts will slowly stop and the sev posts will take over.

This is precisely true and we have had people from the beginning asking us to just morph the SEIV forum into the SEV forum. Over time the SEIV forum would die out in favor of the SEV forum, and rather than lock the SEIV forum and move it down to the archive area at the bottom, we chose to combine the forums and move it into the Shrapnel Community category along with the Starfury forum.

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douglas said:
I liked them separate, too. At the very least, they should have moved the existing posts from the SEV forum to this one before scrapping it. If you're going to combine forums, don't lose posts in the process.

As you now realize, we did move all of the existing posts into this forum. You may not see them at the top of this forum because threads are automatically threaded based on last activity. The SEV forum didn't have a lot of activity yet, so the threads are probably not visible on this first page of threads. If and when someone posts to one of those threads, it will bump it back to the top.

Gandalf Parker · #8 May 17th, 2005, 02:21 PM

I guess we cant knock Shrap for putting it all in one basket (but you know what they say about all eggs in one basket)

Banking on the idea that SEIV will wind down as SEV picks up is having alot of confidence in SEV. There are still some variables I dont know which might make it not quite go that way. (the beta-testers know but of course cant clarify yet)

Its also majorly going to schlock when someone tries to do a search on a subject and gets them both mixed together in the results. Talk of mods and races and keypresses and tactics.

But back to the straw post threads! Come on. One more straw. This camel aint dead yet.

Fyron · #9 May 17th, 2005, 02:30 PM

Thanks again for keeping us around!

tesco samoa · #10 May 17th, 2005, 02:42 PM

yes having all eggs in one basket is good for carrying them around

and takes less resources

I am sure if you look at the metrics of single egg basket carries damages vs multi egg basket carries damages you will see that the % of damage vs the big breaking news story that the eggs broke support this theory of combining seiv and sev.

If you look at the following chart. I will add the final proof

This clearly shows that a waterfall average of 320 is achieved.